Beverages and Blades - Traditional of Course

I bought some Founder's Pure Gold lager yesterday because the Adams Octoberfest is gone. About as gold as what goes forth after you've drunk it.
That is, I don't like it much. Very sour on the back of the tongue.
Pic to come. I must "arise and fight, like the fire that consumes all before it."
That is, I have snow to relocate.
A little drama never hurt anybody.
 
Pàdruig said:
Happy belated birthday, Jolipapa Jolipapa !


I am enjoying a beautiful, crispy cool evening. I am rather fond of box pressed cigars and this Macanudo is excellent. Pairs nicely with the Islay.

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Nice photo, as always, Dylan! I could go for a nice box-pressed cigar right about now (my favorite is the CAO L'anniversaire Maduro), but the high today was 20°, and for some silly reason my wife doesn't like for me to smoke cigars in the house! :confused: :D

meako said:
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Anyone seen this?
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meako said:
They put the freshly poured glass of beer in this machine and it can create images in the froth!!!....even your face...what will they think of next.?
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That's kinda cool, but it also seems like an unnecessary delay in getting the beer from the tap to your mouth.

Jack Black said:
I've not yet found a whisky I didn't like, but I definitely favour the Islay malts, just wish they'd stop messing about blending them, as they have in recent years :rolleyes:
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I saw an Islay blend a while back called The Peat Monster. I was intrigued by the name, but if I recall correctly, the price was double that of Laphroaig, so I passed.

Speyside for me tonight, along with a surprise gift from @paulhilborn that showed up in the mail today. (I'll have to get better pictures tomorrow... thanks again, Paul!)

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btb01 said:
Nice photo, as always, Dylan! I could go for a nice box-pressed cigar right about now (my favorite is the CAO L'anniversaire Maduro), but the high today was 20°, and for some silly reason my wife doesn't like for me to smoke cigars in the house! :confused: :D
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Yours too?!
 
btb01 said:
I saw an Islay blend a while back called The Peat Monster. I was intrigued by the name, but if I recall correctly, the price was double that of Laphroaig, so I passed.

Speyside for me tonight, along with a surprise gift from @paulhilborn that showed up in the mail today. (I'll have to get better pictures tomorrow... thanks again, Paul!)

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I've seen it Barrett, but not tried it. I certainly wouldn't pay more than the price of good traditional Scottish malt for it. I don't like the way they're messing around with whisky to appeal to fashions. If the Islay malts had enough peat for generations of old Scots, that's good enough for me, and I want to know if it's 10 years old, 12 years old, 15 years old, or whatever, not given a fancy box, with some cod-historic drivel written by an ad man on the side, and a New Age name :rolleyes: That's a nice gift from Paul, he's generous as the day is long (even more at the moment in fact!) :) :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
I've seen it Barrett, but not tried it. I certainly wouldn't pay more than the price of good traditional Scottish malt for it. I don't like the way they're messing around with whisky to appeal to fashions. If the Islay malts had enough peat for generations of old Scots, that's good enough for me, and I want to know if it's 10 years old, 12 years old, 15 years old, or whatever, not given a fancy box, with some cod-historic drivel written by an ad man on the side, and a New Age name :rolleyes: That's a nice gift from Paul, he's generous as the day is long (even more at the moment in fact!) :) :thumbsup:
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+1 :thumbsup: Further, I share Barrett's taste for Spey. If I recall correctly, you once posted a picture of an Abunadh batch of which I had also a bottle (and enjoyed). My daughter often gives me a bottle of Cardhu.
Islay has too much peat and smoke for my taste (but that's just me).
 
Jolipapa said:
+1 :thumbsup: Further, I share Barrett's taste for Spey. If I recall correctly, you once posted a picture of an Abunadh batch of which I had also a bottle (and enjoyed). My daughter often gives me a bottle of Cardhu.
Islay has too much peat and smoke for my taste (but that's just me).
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That really was an excellent drop wasn't it JP? :) I drink a fair bit of Talisker, and Highland Park, but the latter does slip down a little too easily for me :D I usually have half a dozen different bottles on the go at once, and get through them slowly :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
That really was an excellent drop wasn't it JP? :) I drink a fair bit of Talisker, and Highland Park, but the latter does slip down a little too easily for me :D I usually have half a dozen different bottles on the go at once, and get through them slowly :thumbsup:
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Oh yes it was, I have fond memories of it. Even at around 60° it went like le petit Jésus en culotte de velours! :D

I also have always a few bottles in the cabinet and like to rotate. But I am more rum than whisky / bourbon.
 
Jack Black said:
I've seen it Barrett, but not tried it. I certainly wouldn't pay more than the price of good traditional Scottish malt for it. I don't like the way they're messing around with whisky to appeal to fashions. If the Islay malts had enough peat for generations of old Scots, that's good enough for me, and I want to know if it's 10 years old, 12 years old, 15 years old, or whatever, not given a fancy box, with some cod-historic drivel written by an ad man on the side, and a New Age name :rolleyes: That's a nice gift from Paul, he's generous as the day is long (even more at the moment in fact!) :) :thumbsup:
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Hear, hear!
I'm happiest when my wife or sons give me the plain old 10-year-old Laphroaig. Don't mind trying the others. Some have been very interesting. But "the old is better."
 
Jolipapa said:
Oh yes it was, I have fond memories of it. Even at around 60° it went like le petit Jésus en culotte de velours! :D

I also have always a few bottles in the cabinet and like to rotate. But I am more rum than whisky / bourbon.
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Mine was a birthday gift, a very generous one I thought :) I used to go in a bar that had it, but long, long gone I'm afraid :(

I am also very fond of rum JP, though I mainly drink it when I am out, rather than at home, for some reason. A couple of years ago I was having a coffee in a cafe I used to frequent, when a lady who was a rep for Whyte & MacKays started up a conversation with a couple of us regulars sitting at the bar. She opened up a small suitcase, and proceeded to ply us with a series of nice old rums, and a couple of reasonable malts too. A couple of hours later, she toddled off with her suitcase, leaving us half sozzled! Nice job :D :thumbsup:

Prester John said:
Hear, hear!
I'm happiest when my wife or sons give me the plain old 10-year-old Laphroaig. Don't mind trying the others. Some have been very interesting. But "the old is better."
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It's nice to always have a secure stash of your favourite ;) :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
Mine was a birthday gift, a very generous one I thought :) I used to go in a bar that had it, but long, long gone I'm afraid :(

I am also very fond of rum JP, though I mainly drink it when I am out, rather than at home, for some reason. A couple of years ago I was having a coffee in a cafe I used to frequent, when a lady who was a rep for Whyte & MacKays started up a conversation with a couple of us regulars sitting at the bar. She opened up a small suitcase, and proceeded to ply us with a series of nice old rums, and a couple of reasonable malts too. A couple of hours later, she toddled off with her suitcase, leaving us half sozzled! Nice job :D :thumbsup:
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LOL! We were less lucky when our minister of interior was a former Ricard rep (rip). He was a true mobster! :eek:
 
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